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by fineline 9y ago
Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind? Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind. -- Goethe Vale Pirsig
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by fineline 9y ago
I have upvoted your comment, regardless of the technical accuracy of your wording. In the edition of the book that I first read, Pirsig included this information in an afterword and although it wasn't a core part of the original narrat
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by fineline 9y ago
Marginal utility is from the perspective of a consumer not a producer, so cost doesn't come into it. The analogy that stuck with me was eating bars of chocolate from the initial one which tastes delicious, and thus has high MU, until t
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by fineline 9y ago
It has spoken in a changing but relevant way to me each decade that I have read it.
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by fineline 10y ago
Or even basic electrical appliances. I have a toaster, a kettle and a vacuum which are all bricked because of peripheral failures - two poorly (deliberately..?) designed mechanical switches and a charger - which in many cases would cause th
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by fineline 10y ago
APL disagrees too. Except when it doesn't.
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by fineline 10y ago
"Safely assume" is an oxymoron. Assumptions are a form of risk taking. The upside reward is that you save the cost of testing (and thus eliminating) your assumption. The (potential) downside is the complete failure of everything r
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by fineline 10y ago
Hi Jordan, a bit off topic and late, but do you have any update on chenglou's comment on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12400397 that React bindings for Reason would be published on HN in a few days.
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by fineline 10y ago
I haven't read the article yet, I jumped straight here to view the comments first... We each have echo chambers, to which we endow trust and allow the source material to be filtered and pre-judged for us. The internet didn't start
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by fineline 10y ago
My work recently offered to replace my 2013 retina MBP, at no cost to myself, as it went out of (extended) warranty. I declined. I'd rather wait and see if they improve the offering later this year. Come on Apple, lift your game.
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by fineline 10y ago
"Old enough to remember CoffeeScript" sounds funny to those old enough to remember UCSD Pascal on Apple ][ or RPG2 on IBM System 34's.
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by fineline 10y ago
So if they'd started in 1966 it wouldn't have been built until 2066? Good job they waited until the nineties so they could leapfrog their alternate destiny.
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by fineline 10y ago
It also shares more than half its name. The recognisable bit. The other bit is the generic and largely interchangeable "base" / "db". I don't know if it's intentional, but there's no wonder people get
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by fineline 10y ago
Tiger used to not charge for Mastercard debit. It has changed recently, but still only a matter of cents.
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by fineline 10y ago
This looks great, although roughly 5 years too late. Adobe's late 2011 communications around the Flash/Flex platform and the ensuing alienation and loss of a large developer community must go down as one of the low-points in corpo
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by fineline 10y ago
Nobody has any experience of being any older than they currently are, but a lifetime's memory of being younger. Hence most people of all ages feel old. One trick I like to play on myself is to imagine I come back from twenty years in t
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by fineline 10y ago
Good point about "super valuable" maintenance skills. Some well paid COBOL programmers still, I hear.
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by fineline 10y ago
Old guy here too. When I was a younger guy and first saw the web, after making a few web pages I naturally wondered "how can I program this?" At the time, the old guy programmers were old mainframe / terminal architecture guy
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by fineline 10y ago
Keene's suggestion is basically a flat universal payment, if you have debt it must be used to pay down debt first. http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/manifesto/ I don't really get how it's supposed
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by fineline 10y ago
This tool was essential for me when working with Flash, as it decoded AMF, the binary remoting protocol used by Flash/Flex. Nowadays with everything being JSON I haven't used it in years. I guess if you've got something outsi
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by fineline 10y ago
Yes, you are missing a statically typed language. Tests or assertions? Neither. Security or efficiency? Both.
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by fineline 10y ago
> No, we are borrowing from each other in the present. Not according to the Bank of England. http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Documents/quarte...
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by fineline 11y ago
Four positive, one neutral, one negative. Balanced? Where is the sadface to go with smile? The warface to go with heart? Or the facepalm to go with party?
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by fineline 11y ago
My motorcycle instructor advised me to "treat all car drivers as a lower life form, and treat taxi drivers as the lowest of the low." That mindset saved me a few times. U turns without warning, pulling over in prohibited areas wit
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by fineline 11y ago
Or they did, and are pointing out your mistake. It wasn't Berry in the interview scene.
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by fineline 11y ago
My watch (with mechanical hands, not digital) has some kind of kinetic energy generation, it has run for years and years without stopping, charging or winding. I wonder if something similar would suffice for energy needs of a device like th
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by fineline 11y ago
Interesting point - but why wouldn't the business model that worked for Facebook - ads - work on a decentralised web? Instead of posting content to FB alongside which they run ads and generate revenue, individual publishers could keep
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by fineline 11y ago
There is a multi-billion dollar industry selling people all kinds of fashionable, pharmaceutical and surgical means of "preserving their youth". If only people realised that what they are trying to relive is the state of not knowi
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by fineline 11y ago
It was probably about a year ago. Glad to hear they've simplified the story, I'll take another look.
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by fineline 11y ago
You're very welcome.

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